Chen, Daniel L. and Ornaghi, Arianna
(2023)
Gender Attitudes in the Judiciary: Evidence from U.S. Circuit Courts.
American Economic Journal : Applied Economics.
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Abstract
Do gender attitudes influence interactions with female judges in U.S. Circuit Courts? In this paper, we propose a judge-specific measure of gender attitudes based on use of gender-stereotyped language in the judge’s authored opinions. Exploiting quasi-random assignment of judges to cases and conditioning on judges’ characteristics, we validate the measure showing that higher-slant judges vote more conservatively in gender-related cases. Higher-slant judges interact differently with female colleagues: they are more likely to reverse lower-court decisions if the lower-court judge is a woman than a man, are less likely to assign opinions to female judges, and cite fewer female-authored opinions.
Item Type: | Article |
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Language: | English |
Date: | 2023 |
Refereed: | Yes |
Uncontrolled Keywords: | Gender attitudes, judiciary, stereotypes, NLP |
JEL Classification: | J16 - Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination J70 - General |
Subjects: | B- ECONOMIE ET FINANCE |
Divisions: | TSE-R (Toulouse) |
Site: | UT1 |
Date Deposited: | 13 Dec 2022 10:15 |
Last Modified: | 08 Jun 2023 07:10 |
OAI Identifier: | oai:tse-fr.eu:127559 |
URI: | https://publications.ut-capitole.fr/id/eprint/46498 |